re: Obviously the Pelini experiment is done after this year

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A) It is anything but obvious. See (b).

B) Pelini was not an experiment- he was supposed to be long term, steady, and solid. See (c).

C) There's lots of built in excuses that are also pseudo-reasons to "explain it away". See (a)

Don't get me wrong, I'm anything but advocating for keeping Pelini. I'm just stating that it isn't a foregone conclusion.

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But what have we seen that would give anyone hope he can turn it around?

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I don't. The "we don't have the right people for a 4-3" reason doesn't even remotely pass the smell test, for multiple reasons. So if it isn't a personnel reason, then "hope" isn't an option. We have what will eventually be regarded as 2 of the best 10 CBs in the nation (Stingley 1 or 2 and Ricks will certainly be regarded as a top-10) but yet do not play to or leverage that strength schematically and have one of the worst pass defenses in the nation. That just shouldn't happen. Period. Whatever problems are causing that aren't going to disappear when the last digit in the date changes to 1.

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We haven't had 1 game this season you could point to and say we saw any real improvement from the defense.

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Agreed, wholeheartedly. And that was and is the metric we and CEO and Woodward should be looking at. With our talent level PLUS the excuses/reasons being used to prop up Bo the one thing you should see is improvement. Steady and in rather large steps. But it isn't there, much less steady and not in large steps. Experience, coaching, and practice should erase all those excuses such as no spring and the defense "catch up". It isn't happening. I think the reason is lack of coaching.

Coaching matters. Don't look at us, look at Arkansas. Want to see what a team with bad recruiting and even worse coaching looks like? Look at Arkansas with Morris and Fat Bert recruiting. Look what they are doing with bad recruiting w/Morris+Fat Bert. It matters.